“Nice Spring so far eh,” asked
Barry.
“Yeah. It’s something else all
right,” said Conrad.
The wind swirled around them. They
stepped closer to each other. Small snow pellets bounced off them.
“The wife and I were talking
about how we should have stayed south for another week or so, but everybody
else was coming back this way so we figured we might as well join them. I wish
I’d listened to the wife,” said Barry.
“My wife and I had the exact
same discussion but we also decided to come back with everyone else. I mean, it
was so nice when we got back. Who would have thought it would turn into this,” said
Conrad.
A bus roared by on the street
and splashed a sleet filled puddle up onto the sidewalk. The people waiting to
cross the street yelled and cursed as the dirty water splashed at them.
“Whoa, didja see that?”
“Yeah,” said Barry.
“What a maniac,” said Conrad.
“What’s with these people? I
tell you, they’re just crazy,” said Barry.
Umbrellas flapped in the cold
breeze masquerading as Spring. Rain
started falling mixed with the small snow pellets.
“These people are just awful,”
said Conrad, “did I tell you what they did to Jerry and Mavis’ place?”
“No, what happened,” asked
Barry.
“These people didn’t like where
they built their house. Like it was an obstruction or something, these people
just went ahead and tore it down. Jerry and Mavis came home from a day in the
fields and ‘BOOM’, house is gone,” said Conrad.
“That’s terrible. Damn those
people,” said Barry, “What did Jerry and Mavis do?”
“What could they do? They had to
move. Who would want to live around people like that,” asked Conrad.
“I know what you mean. I had
people like that around me when I was younger. They hated our family
sing-a-longs and I swear they used to throw stuff at us to make us stop. It was
awful. I was so glad when we were old enough to move,” said Barry.
Thick grey clouds billowed
overhead and a fresh spate of snow pellets and sleet fell to the ground.
“Ugh, this weather is just too
much,” said Barry.
“Yeah. You want to fly by the
highway overpass, see if we can get out of the weather,” asked Conrad.
“That sounds like a great idea,”
said Barry.
Conrad and Barry flapped their
wings and took off from the telephone wire over the city street. They ducked
and rolled through the wind and the weather over the heads of the people below.
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